140 Bulletin of the University of Texas 
seeds and sweet flesh. Along streams and on hillsides, Vir- 
ginia to Missouri, Kansas, Florida and Texas. Planted for 
ornament. 
TILIACEAE Jussien. Linden Family. 
Tilia L. The Bass Woods. 
Trees with mucilaginous sap, tough inner bark, alternate, 
serrate, unequally cordate, or truncate leaves; flowers in ax- 
illary clusters with penduncles attached to a conspicuous 
bract; fruit nut-like. 
Leaves: Smooth. Dene aR: *. a sc8 3 pis Meracduehseaer eae: ae 1. T. Americana. 
Leaves more or less hairy beneath .... 32:38 S.AsuA 2. T. leptophylla. 
1. Tilia Americana L. A large straight trunked forest 
tree, usually 60°-70° high with spreading branches, gray bark, 

Fig. 45. Tilia Americana. 
and light gray or brownish twigs. Occasionally larger, 100°- 
120° high. Leaves orbicular, firm, heart-shaped or truncate 
at base, sharply serrate, smooth dark green above, yellow- 
ereen and lustrous with hairs in the axils of the veins be- 
